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Why working from home (WFH) could be inciting inequality

by Robert Stassen | May 4, 2022 | Golden Oldie, The Analyst

As with other innovations, it carries risks as well as benefits. Originally published August 2021. There is this great cartoon where a man sits behind a laptop having a Zoom call at his kitchen table perfectly shaven and dressed in a shiny shirt with tie, but under...

How inflation reinforces liquidity bias

by Andreas Calianos | May 4, 2022 | The Analyst, zLead Article, zNewsletter

Another instalment in a series of articles detailing how to design a secure, income-producing portfolio. According to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), for the 12 months ended January 2022, inflation soared to 7.5%, the highest annualised chance since 1982. During that...

What macaroni and cheese means to me

by Garrison Keillor | May 3, 2022 | The Storyteller, zOtherDiversions

Men my age are not riding high these days compared to back in the Renaissance or the 19th century, so I am taking a back seat and not getting fussed up. I appreciate new stuff like YouTube and the Unsubscribe option, and the peanut butter latte, but I don’t know who...

Russia’s weaponisation of natural gas could backfire by destroying demand for it

by Michael E Webber | May 3, 2022 | The Professor, zLead Article, zNewsletter

In December 2006, The Economist magazine published a cover drawing of Russian president Vladimir Putin, dressed like a 1930s gangster in a dark suit and fedora hat, under the headline ‘Don’t Mess with Russia’. Putin held a gasoline nozzle, gripping it like...

During the Cold War, US and Europe were just as divided over Russia sanctions

by Kirill Shakhnov | May 3, 2022 | Golden Oldie, The Analyst

Here’s how it played out. Originally published March 2022. It’s impossible to predict how the crisis in Ukraine will progress, but the rupture in relations between Russia and the West is unlikely to heal any time soon. At the very least, trade between these two...